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Я @gertiewentworth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Gramophone and Portrait of Edmund Collein — Bauhaus 1927 • Heinz Loew

Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This acoustically reproducing 30s portable has a uniquely mains and spring powered motor. Subsequently sold under the name “Dual,” this German hybrid motor became such a success that the company rebranded itself to the motor’s name. Dual would become a global player in postwar Hi-Fi turntables.

1930s Dual. A portable mains and spring powered acoustically reproducing gramophone

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

In these trying times, do as those who came before us did: keep spinning and appreciate the tune.

A hopefully animated gif of a Columbia Grafonola spinning a record

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

An early 1930s UK Columbia 202 Viva-Tonal Grafonola. The 202 was the top of Columbia’s mid tier gramophone offerings. Utilizing designs dated prior to the EMI merger with rival HMV, this model evolved through the 30s gradually incorporating HMV components until its retirement just before WWII.

A red Rexine covered Columbia 202 portable gramophone with its oft missing in-lid record storage binder. This model was popular worldwide thanks to the six continent reach of Columbia Graphophone Ltd (London), well established prior to the incorporation of EMI.

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This still from “Bringing Up Baby” (1938) shows Baby enjoying a record player, which electric phonographs were beginning to be called to distinguish their new technology from the decades old acoustic horn players. (cont.)

From “Bringing Up Baby” 1938, an electric pick-up enabled “record player” spins an electric process recording of “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.”

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Help save and repair gramophones! Sell / swap / donate your spares. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Danny Kelly @dannykellywords.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

On this day 88 years ago, Robert Johnson was finishing his first recording session (he only managed two). Between Nov 23 and 25, 1936, in room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, he laid down 16 tunes, inc Terraplane Blues and Cross Road Blues. Rock n roll was born, history was made.

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

PATHÉPHONE, Modèle Y, 1925, France Also sold as solely an internal horn Pathéphone, this model features an additional external horn via an attachment that has come to be known as the “Jour et Nuit” (“Day and Night”).

Restored Model Y Pathéphone with “Day and Night” attachment for the external horn.

Pathéphone Model Y from the French Pathé machine catalogue from 1925

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

“Blue Skies” (too on the nose?) on EMG Mark IX youtube.com/watch?v=P9qM...

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Anne Lenner @annelenner.com · 12/11/2024

"I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" (from the film "Broadway Melody of 1936"; Freed-Brown). Recorded in London on November 12, 1935 by Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans with singers Brian Lawrance and Anne Lenner. Transfer by Clive Hooley: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pH8...

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I've got a feeling your Foolin', Carroll Gibbons, 1935

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Antique Grooves @78rpm.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

Performer: Florrie Forde with orchestral accompaniment Title: Charlie, Charlie Credits: H. Darewski Recorded: August 25, 1915 Issued: Zonophone Record, Serial 1564

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Florrie Forde: Charlie, Charlie (1915)

Artist: Florrie Forde with orchestral accompanimentTitle: Charlie, CharlieCredits: H. DarewskiRecorded: August 25, 1915Issued: Zonophone Record, Serial 1564

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

One of the most famous portable gramophones, this model 2 Decca is in the IWM. A clipping from the US talking machine trades describes its service in the tranches. For this reason many reflector bowl horn gramophones are erroneously thought of as “trench gramophones,” Decca marque or not.

Battle scarred Decca model 2 portable from WWI via the Imperial War Museum (UK)

a clipping from from “Talking Machine World” (US) describing the Decca gramophone donated to the IWM in 1918.

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Columbia N. 900 fonograf Italy 1939 During WW2, EMI divisions in Axis occupied territories were isolated from the UK. Many would improvise their seasonal offerings by augmenting pre-embargo stock with designs and parts from local gramophone companies using imported parts from neutral Switzerland.

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Columbia 122 Viva-Tonal portable phonograph, USA ~1932-1937 A mid-tier Thorens design released during the dark Depression years under ARC ownership (inter regnum Columbia Graphophone Ltd UK and CBS). ARC released a badge engineered variant model via Brunswick.

The US Columbia 122 portable (mostly Thorens) dating from the Roosevelt administration (F.D.R.).

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Gramophones ‘n’ Phonographs @gramophilia.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Olophone Pathé No.1, France 1928. A compact “Cameraphone” portable.

Pathé compact “cameraphone” gramophone from France.

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